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this is a very tricky matter for both europe and the united states. again, the european involvement in the engagement, the french are taking the lead. not doing so out of their economic interests, but rather a political response. sort that out for us. what would you expect to be the consequences? >> what they have done is, the group's generally in northwest africa are very ethnically different, religiously different grievances will probably primarily local. al qaeda works zero ways to unite these people and focus them on foreign powers, especially western powers. what the french have done as proof that god is great because they have now put troops on the ground, a foreign colonial power has returned to their colonial power country with there western friends in the u.s., and they know have something that will unite all of these groups. and i think the only thing that we have going for us at the moment is energy is of very hard not for the islamists to crack. if they destroy plants and wells and muslim countries, it puts muslims out of work. i think it
this is a very tricky matter for both europe and the united states. again, the european involvement in the engagement, the french are taking the lead. not doing so out of their economic interests, but rather a political response. sort that out for us. what would you expect to be the consequences? >> what they have done is, the group's generally in northwest africa are very ethnically different, religiously different grievances will probably primarily local. al qaeda works zero ways to...
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. >> the united states does not negotiate with terrorists said. >> all say it again. the united states does not negotiate with terrorists. >> we do not negotiate with terrorists. we are obviously in consultations. lou: the problem with that statement is that this government has negotiated with terrorists. our government has been engaged in talks with the taliban and afghanistan since early 2009. the same group that has been a safe haven in the immediate aftermath of september 11th. documents found in the abbottabad compound the lion was killed proving a close working relationship between the two. the same group that is also responsible for a large portion of the 2200 american soldiers killed in afghanistan since 2001. not to mention the palestinian liberation organization the designation changed after we helped negotiate the deal. meanwhile, secretary of state hillary clinton chose her words carefully, while suggesting that the algerian government could use a hand in the battle in that region. >> it absolutely essential that we broaden and deepen our counter-terrorism
. >> the united states does not negotiate with terrorists said. >> all say it again. the united states does not negotiate with terrorists. >> we do not negotiate with terrorists. we are obviously in consultations. lou: the problem with that statement is that this government has negotiated with terrorists. our government has been engaged in talks with the taliban and afghanistan since early 2009. the same group that has been a safe haven in the immediate aftermath of september...
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the united states is never quite perfect. always trying to make things better. in keeping with our original principles. going back to the idea of the declaration and pac-10 our greatest president, the republican president, abraham lincoln. i think he was trying to channel lap and then push it forward into specific policies for today . lou: do you have a sense of the future that he envisions as a result of today's speech? >> well, i think the speech today was really about equality. it was saying that lincoln was right when lincoln said that the united states is dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. that was a pretty radical thing that lincoln did. that was not something most americans thought that the constitution was written. as you know, we had slavery. lincoln read that as of forward-looking idea. lou: when he wrote that -- when he wrote that he was standing on the shoulders of those who had founded this nation and you had written the declaration. redneck constitution. equality was fundamental and mps book documents. that country's histo
the united states is never quite perfect. always trying to make things better. in keeping with our original principles. going back to the idea of the declaration and pac-10 our greatest president, the republican president, abraham lincoln. i think he was trying to channel lap and then push it forward into specific policies for today . lou: do you have a sense of the future that he envisions as a result of today's speech? >> well, i think the speech today was really about equality. it was...
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we had an assault gun ban in the united states. during that time the shooting took place at columbine. if anyone thinks it will stop, they're just wrong. lou: the issue of gun-control, now the president has changed the language and the advocates for gun-control have changed the language to talk about a campaign to stop gun violence rather than gun-control. what is your impression of the executive order? did you expect him to do more, reach farher? in any way do more to actually have an immediate impact? >> he wanted to do morph. he knew he had to rein in his overreach from executive authority in charge to put more on this on ongress, which is exactly why use the appropriate word earlier when he called his political theater. this is nothing more the political theater for the president who is trying to act like he is doing something but in the end really not. the other point, the violence. we have had guns in this country since before the declaration of independence was written. we have had an escalation in violence in general over t
we had an assault gun ban in the united states. during that time the shooting took place at columbine. if anyone thinks it will stop, they're just wrong. lou: the issue of gun-control, now the president has changed the language and the advocates for gun-control have changed the language to talk about a campaign to stop gun violence rather than gun-control. what is your impression of the executive order? did you expect him to do more, reach farher? in any way do more to actually have an...
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in the united states there are somewhere along the lines of a quarter of a billion guns in circulation. so this does not really address the here and now, the problems we're having now, and that is where something like mental health and background checks or other, you know, other remedies may be much more important and more valuable than what this bill would put forward. secondly, i just don't think it as much of a chance in the senate, not just because the republicans, but because there are a lot of democrats up for reelection in pro-gun states where this kind of thing just one flight. i don't think this will get anywhere. >> i think the bill is way too broad. i am a democrat. it's too much. at the same time, you talk about the small numbers of people affected if these guns were to be banned. if you look at mexico, mexico said they lost 30,000 people due to the gun flow from american guns coming over into the border. and so we have to look at -- i don't think it is just -- we have to look at the problem of violence and not just mental-health. mental health is a big issue, but violence
in the united states there are somewhere along the lines of a quarter of a billion guns in circulation. so this does not really address the here and now, the problems we're having now, and that is where something like mental health and background checks or other, you know, other remedies may be much more important and more valuable than what this bill would put forward. secondly, i just don't think it as much of a chance in the senate, not just because the republicans, but because there are a...